The Black Rabbit Of Inle
The Black Rabbit is the Lapin god of the underworld. Here he takes a rabbit home. The Black Rabbit is the creation of Richard
Adams, Watership Down.
When the snare is set in the gap, the Black Rabbit knows where the peg
is driven; and when the weasel dances, the Black Rabbit is not far off.
You all know how some rabbits seem just to throw their lives away
between two jokes and a theft: but the truth is that their foolishness
comes from the Black Rabbit, for it is by his will that they do not
smell the dog or see the gun…But the truth is — or so they taught me —
that he, too, serves Lord Frith and does no more than his appointed task
— to bring about what must be. We come into the world and we have to
go: but we do not go merely to serve the turn of one enemy or another.
If that were so, we would all be destroyed in a day. We go by the will
of the Black Rabbit of Inle and only by his will. And though that will
seem hard and bitter to us all, yet in his way he is our protector, for
he knows Frith’s promise to the rabbits and he will avenge any rabbit
who may chance to be destroyed without the consent of himself.
All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
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